Tragic Mulatto: Difference between revisions

This is largely a [[Discredited Trope]] these days, due to the unsettling frequency with which authors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used it to talk about racial prejudice without having [[But Not Too Black|an 'excessively black' protagonist]]. The assumption that having mixed-raced blood dooms you to misfortune is also a rich source of [[Unfortunate Implications]], much in the same way as [[Bury Your Gays]]. Nevertheless, examples do still crop up in media, usually seeking (with varying degrees of success) to avoid the trope's more obviously problematic aspects by using fantastic races like elves or demons instead of the real-world sort.

 

 

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* [[Cute Witch]] Yukari Sendou of ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]'' is played at this on introduction. As a "border being", her race is neither pure human nor pure youkai. Because of this, neither race trusts or likes her people.

** Ruby suffered a somewhat worse case.